Recently, Avazu, together withthe world-renowned Internet data modeling and analysis competitions platform Kaggle, organize an international Mobile Ad CTR Prediction Contest. Avazu establishes an up to $15,000 dollars prize (1st Place – $10,000; 2nd Place – $3,000;3rd Place – $2,000) aiming to attract more global Machine Learning researchers and enthusiasts to put their studies into the field of digital ad industry.

Mobile Ad CTR Prediction Contest is selected as a Featured Competitions by Kaggle. And up to now the challenge evokes much attention in the crowd of researchers from the world-renowned universities, technical experts from ad industry key players and Geeks from all around the world.

Ifyou are interested in machinelearning, and have the confidence to show the most accurate ML algorithms for CTR estimation, log in Kaggle , submit your solutions and join in the competition to win the big prize now!
Competition details (94 total days):

Started: 10:15 pm, Friday 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Ends: 11:59 pm, Monday 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Either participating the contest in individual or group is acceptable.

For more information, please visit the contest web page:https://www.kaggle.com/c/avazu-ctr-prediction

About Kaggle

Kaggle is a platform for predictive modelling and analytics competitions on which companies and researchers post their data and statisticians and data miners from all over the world compete to produce the best models. This crowdsourcing approach relies on the fact that there are countless strategies that can be applied to any predictive modelling task and it is impossible to know at the outset which technique or analyst will be most effective. Kaggle aims at making data science a sport.

Kaggle website: http: //www.kaggle.com